Ancestry Quote by Ovid

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

— Ovid

I am not my self, I am the result of all my ancestors.

— Santiago Martinez Delgado

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

— Moliere

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but…

— Shirley Franklin

The other piece about tracing your ancestry is it makes you slightly more empathetic about what happens today. As we seem to have lost…

— Alex Wagner

Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.

— Li Lu

“More than once I have tried to picture myself in the position of a boy or man with an honoured and distinguished ancestry which…

— Solomon Northup

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

— Louis L'Amour

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

— V. S. Naipaul

We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.

— Frederick Lenz

“Our ancestors believed that they were not born complete. There was someone out there with a part of their heart and soul. When they…

— Eden Cole

“We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This…

— Bryan Sykes